Helix Media Delivery Platform

Multi-Screen applications

David J Smith

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Q: Want to send video multi-screen?

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A: Easy with Helix

• Deliver Any Media, To Any Media Player and Any Where

• Broadest Audience Reach – At work, On-the-Go, and at Home

• Simplicity, Reliability, Performance and Cost Effectiveness

• End-to-End integrated - Standards-based and Multi-Platform Support

• Platform Functionality

• Multi-delivery

• RTSP, MPEG-DASH

• HLS+DRM, RTMP, WMSP

• Multi-ingest

• RTSP, RTP, MPEG2-TS

• Helix RBS, RTMP, WME

• Multi-codec

• H.264/AAC, H.263/AMR

• FLV, WMV, RealMedia

Helix Media Delivery Platform

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Helix Media Delivery Platform Universal multi-screen delivery

H.26

4

RealAudio/

RealVideo

Windows Media

3GPP H.264

Flash

Quick Time

Billing & Security

Quick Time + HLS

RealAudio/ RealVideo

WMV + Silverlight

H.264 / H.263 + DASH

3GPP H.264 / H.263

Flash FLV, F4V

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• Deliver Mobile, OTT, multi-screen and social TV services

• Deploy to 3G, 4G, WiFi and broadband IP networks

• Live or on-demand TV stations and/or playlists

• Video advertising inserted live or via playlist (non skip-able)

• Configurable playlist capability by genre, individual or create your own

• Video available from 64Kbps, Audio from 8Kbps

Mobile TV, OTT, Multi-Screen, Social TV

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Media Storage

.3gp

.mp4

.rm

.wmv

Live Event

Video

Catalogue 3G, 4G,

WiFi, DSL

Cable

Transcoder

Encoding software

Terrestrial

Satellite

Smartphone to

SmartTV

• Deliver Music services to 2G, 3G, 4G, WiFi and broadband IP networks

• Live or on-demand radio stations and/or playlists

• Radio advertising inserted live or via playlist (non skip-able)

• Configurable playlist capability by genre, individual or create your own

• Audio available from 16Kbps

Music Services – OTT, Social Radio

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.3gp

Encoding software

Live

Music

Music

Catalogue 3G, 4G

WiFi,DSL

Cable

Music Storage Smartphone to

SmartTV

Transcoder

• Deliver Video Surveillance services to 3G, 4G, WiFi and broadband IP networks using IP (rtsp) or SDI cameras

• Direct ingest of IP camera RTSP to HLS, DASH, RTMP, RTSP

• Transcode from camera SDI to HLS, DASH, RTMP, RTSP

• Scales to 1,000’s of concurrent connections

• Live and/or on-demand security footage playback

• Video available from 64Kbps, Audio from 8Kbps

IP or SDI Camera - Video Surveillance

Video

Surveillance

Archive Smartphone

tablet,PC

.mp4

.3gp

IP or SDI

Camera

Helix

Server 3G, 4G,

WiFi, DSL,

Cable Transcoder

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RTSP

• Deliver TV to multi-screens – PC, Tablet, Mobile, OTT STB / Smart TV

• Ingest IPTV to digital TV and satellite

• HD Quality 720p @ 4Mbps, 1080p @ 8Mbps

• DVD quality from @ 1Mbps / 2Mbps (720x576)

• Digital archive of each channel for on-demand playback

• MPEG-DASH, HLS + DRM, RTMP or RTSP

IPTV Multi-screen, multi-rate

.3gp

.mp4 Helix

Server

Live IPTV

Headend

.3gp

.mp4

Transcoder

MPEG2-TS ingest

or DVB-S/T

direct connect Terrestrial

Satellite

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Smartphone to

SmartTV

MPEG2-TS (H.264/AAC)

• Multi-screen webcasting from Smartphone to Smart TV

• Ingest SDI, HDMI and IP feeds

• WYSIWYG video mixing – any visible application output

• Full event control – pre-roll, present, intervals and post-roll

• Deliver locally PDN and CDN for multi-screen play-out

Enterprise Webcasting

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Presentation PC

Playback

Content

Smartphone to

SmartTV

Live video

Presenter

details

Any Delivery

Network

Presenter

details

• Multi-screen video publishing from Smartphone to Smart TV

• Upload media file assets from multiple sources

• Automated multi-device transcoding and web publishing

• Integrated with Blackboard, Moodle VLE’s

Enterprise Video Publishing

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Playback

Content

Smartphone to

SmartTV

Pres

enter

detai

ls

Media Archive

Video, Music,

Media Files, DVD

VLE Integration

A/V

File

Archive Content

Transcoder

Helix Media Distribution

• Deliver via multicast or unicast

• Helix-to-Helix communication used to minimise bandwidth usage

• Adaptive transcode on edge

• Live and On-Demand delivery supported

• 3GP, MP4, WMV, RealMedia, Flash

.3gp

.mp4

On-Demand

Storage

Helix

Server

Origin Site Live TV

Video

Catalogue

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3G,4G

DSL SmartPhone

to Smart TV

Internet Delivery

Transcoder

SmartPhone

to Smart TV

Regional Delivery

Transcoder

DSL, Cable

Customers & Partners

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Delivery to RTSP, RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH Multi-format, multi-protocol, single unified infrastructure

H264/AAC

A/V Source

Single live broadcast into

Helix Universal Server

Multiple Egress protocol support

• Same live broadcast source

• Same on-demand file source

File format:

• 3GP

• MP4

• F4V

Helix

Broadcaster

or Producer

3rd Party

Compliant

Encoder

Helix

Universal

Server

RTSP

Player

RTMP

Player

HTTP

Player

iPhone

iPad

iPod

Helix Server automatically re-packetises H264 &

AAC streams for delivery to RTSP, RTMP, HLS and

MPEG-DASH simultaneously

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• All-in-one appliance

• Transcode > Protect > Deliver > Multi-screen

• Middleware API’s for session, security and archiving

• A flexible appliance solution for all your content needs

• Packetize content to all delivery methods (RTSP, DASH, HLS, RTMP)

• Encrypt to protect content using studio approved DRM

• Any Input Source to Any Output Type

• IP, SDI, HDMI , DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, composite

• Six appliances from portable, rack mountable and blade systems

• Affordable for any budget, scalable from 2 to 400+ channels

Helix Broadcaster

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Helix Broadcaster – multiple scaling

• Create, Packetize, Encrypt, Aggregate Source Content

• Delivery to CDN, PDN and direct to device playback* simultaneously

• One encode, multiple destinations

Helix Broadcaster – multiple destinations

2012

Helix Broadcaster

Multi-DRM / Segmentation / Multi-

codecs / Management / Direct to CDN /

Direct to Cloud / Evolves with

Standards

CDN Provider

Shared Host /

Co-location / Cloud

Private Delivery

Infrastructure

DRM

Transcoder

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• Ingests multiple sources in multiple formats

• Encodes to single and multi-rate profiles

• Deliver locally PDN and CDN for multi-screen play-out

Helix Broadcaster – multiple sources

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IP + SDI Camera

SDI + HDMI

MPEG-2 TS IP Ingest

Live IP Source

Playback

Content

DVB A/V

File

Archive Content

Transcoder

Terrestrial Satellite Smartphone to

SmartTV

• Connecting Helix Broadcaster to a TV aerial provides the ability to

create multi-rate, multi-channel TV broadcasts

• Content can be delivered into multiple delivery solutions

Multi-Screen, Multi-Channel TV

Playback

Content

DVB TV Source

1Mbps

512kbps

256kbps

1Mbps

512kbps

256kbps

1Mbps

512kbps

256kbps

Channel

1

Channel

2

Channel

3

Internal / Hosted

Streaming Platform

CDN

Playback

Content

Transcoder Terrestrial Satellite

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Smartphone to

SmartTV

• IP ingest via RTSP (IP Camera/Server) and MPEG2-TS

• Simultaneously creates H.264/AAC with HLS Segmentation,H.263/AMR, RealMedia

• Adaptive and Multi-rate content output from 176x144p to HD 1980x1080p

• Automatic archive with roll-file for CMS integration

• Delivers to Helix Servers, HLS CDNs & WebDav, 3rd party RTP servers

Helix Producer – H264 + AAC

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• Multi-screen – Smartphone to Smart TV with CDN delivery

• Multi-codec – H.264, H.263, RealMedia, Flash, Windows

• Multi-protocol – RTSP, MPEG-DASH, HLS+DRM, RTMP, WMSP

• Multi-ingest – RTSP, RTP, MPEG2-TS, Helix RBS, RTMP

• Multi-DRM – Verimatrix, BuyDRM

Helix Universal Server

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• 64 bit OS support for RHEL5/6, Oracle6, Win 2008

• Comparison

• 64 bit OS – 6,000Mbps to 11,000Mbps & ~12,000 users*

• HP test centre in Grenoble

• 12 core Intel X5670, DL380 G7

• Passmark 2*9358

• 2 x 10Gbps NIC (bonded) – 20Gbps

• RHEL5 64 bit with 16GB of RAM

Helix Universal Server Performance

64

bit

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Helix Universal Server Scalability**

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

150Kbps 352Kbps 892Kbps 1530Kbps

RTSP Players*

RTSP Mbps

RTMP Players

RTMP Mbps

iOS Players

iOS Mbps

*RTSP 6,150 player limitation to be fixed in 14.3 Oct 2011 **SLTA Helix-to-Helix test May 2011 Full test paper available via NDA using Heli x Server V14.2

Bit Rate RTSP Players* RTSP Mbps RTMP Players RTMP Mbps iOS Players iOS Mbps

150Kbps 6,150 930 10,000 1,500 12,000 2,020

352Kbps 6,150 2,000 8,100 2,600 10,800 3,430

892Kbps 5,700 5,080 5,600 5,000 9,600 8,560

1530Kbps 4,350 6,666 4,400 6,700 7,200 11,020

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• Helix Session Manager

• Accounting and Billing Integration

• User Authorisation

• Authentication

• Content Rights Geo-IP

• Helix Security Manager

• Authentication via Secure URLs

• Prevents links Hi-jacking

• Controls playback allowances

Real-Time Integration & Security

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Helix Session Manager Allow All – Play then validate

Play

3

CGI Session

Management

Business Logic

Helix

Server

Web Browser

HTTP

Notification

2

HTTP request

termination

6

Terminate

Stream

(RTP BYE)

7

Mobile Phone

Tablet

Media URL

1

Session

Manager

Adapter

Note: Helix Session Manager system

components are circled

• Stream is allowed to play whilst business logic authorises transaction

• If successful – play continues

• If unsuccessful - stream is disconnected and subscriber directed to subscription process

• All in ‘real-time’ via application – no post processing logs required

Billing

Authorisation

4

5

Subscriber

Authorisation

Geo-IP Content

Rights

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Helix Security Manager: Authentication: Secure URL Call Flow

Secure URL

3

HTTP

Servers

Web Browser

Request

URL 2

Secure URL

4

Media File 5

Secret

Mobile Phone

Tablet

Media URL

1

Helix

Security

Adapter

CGI

script or

Java

Web

Portal

Program

Note: Helix Security Manager

system components are circled Web

Application

Tom Cat

Server App

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http://helix/video.mp4?token=fe42ade732c9a8171db4

HLS with Verimatrix DRM

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Helix Media Delivery platform enables

• OTT, Multi-screen, Social TV and many other applications

• Reduces TCO, management and investment

• Consistent integration points for real-time billing, subscriber management, reporting and content security

• Provides legacy codec and player support

• A platform for advancements in technology

Contact

David J Smith

djsmith@realnetworks.com

Skype: djsmith.real.com

Helix future proofing your investment

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Further Information

Helix Universal Media Server

http://www.realnetworks.com/helix/streaming-media-server/

Helix Broadcaster

http://www.realnetworks.com/helix/helix-broadcaster/

Helix Producer

http://www.realnetworks.com/helix/video-encoding-with-helix-

producer/

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Contact

djsmith@realnetworks.com